Show COTTON COrTON IS KING ONCE MORE Next to Crop on Record with Price Up to Ten Cents Cent Mn Mane Staple H Has a Annual Value Than Gold Wheat What or Corn S Ten en cent cotton the Southa dream ot a t goldon which long seemed almost ham bu been At Atter Atter ter man many ot of to to 10 tb the nv Ave cent II bast th the tor lor 10 dol has h been removed Los prien have done don their work by the demand tor cotton gouda and It I Inot Ia not that a 8 return to cheep rates rat will occur at feast for tor a long time to soya y tho th New York Herald With dotton higher then thoD q has bat been In ye yeth years tin th demand I U than It ever Iver b blINn ha lINn been before The lb Increase to In demand has bu hasteen teen fiD an to an and cotton once more mort tk takes It its platy whet wheat and nd stock as a me for tor speculation In a wt week neatly worth of cote col tort clanged hands on the New Tork en an amount greater than IbAn the available supply In the country It at that Illat tine time American apt t to look upon UltOn wheat nl as the greatest rt s t a all II crops but It II 1 la a tact fact that tbt Into Il a all Ilme nod and countries I Iii the Ih mJ most t Im Important crop In I Ih h world It I Is a fact also alo that the t su a large larf lOpol II t r all the cotton coton thatis that is III used d a far r proportion than from Jill nary The belt ot of the extends over about tn ten ot of latitude In eluding States 1 tJI and ond Territories In It t rma th the thief hlf staple while It t II s to sums m event Int In III half a dos dosen ll llen en other a aThis This Thill region lIr something like elf l square miles ot of which about teens million acres are to u cl It contains u a ot of lor of ten mill million 1011 script l while It M t so to tn say lY that ten hn million more depend tor their prosper tr directly or In upon the cot col colIon Ion Industry Taking Into the cotton mills II as well 11 as the cotton raising Industry cotton cotlon becomes ot art A greater annual money value to the tat a thin then gold wheat or corn n It Is a mistaken n Wee Idla to suppose IUPPO that the present high price ot of cotton Is I the ot of a crop rol Ca failure II ure The ot of last Ital rr I be bales Ie any drop arop raised In this country with the u ox ot of the Ihl two previous seasons which produced phenomenal yields I rd of over hales bait each The falling oft or of bait baits therefore be merely mely a as a return to normal i production IrO but the vast increase In the ot of uses Ue for tor the product hll has this normal crop croll virtually an un cpr der At the low prices which h prevailed for Cor the three the present year lor cotton Wa was w 10 cheap that a score 1 ref new bW never J of oC before found for or It It has hal been used In inching rugs mg and and has lias t linen mixed wll with h wool or linen to form halt a 1 dozen fabrics each of which has h Its own name Under the tho Impetus ot of the great c de caused by the Increase ot of the number or of Purposes for tor cotton was UP used the multi J Re IU rapid rapidly I during Ih the lest lut three ears as they hal had during tiny any like period previously The worlds con or of cotton rollon grew re from b hales in UN 1811 to bulea In I The fast additional which these thee Indicate was taken laken up I by the great t growth In consumption du due largely to the ht ing ot of low priced goods to Japan end the other Asiatic countries the crops of at the other swat lAt cotton colton growing countries and ond Egypt EarN had bad not In Increased creased to 10 an any ex and the In the molds lId demand la ha been largely left lett to b by American cotton fields Willie While no great Increase In the acre ace devoted 1 to 10 cotton grow 1110 Ing is 11 likely to take place the on will III he encouraged by more meth methode ad ode of oC planting ginning and and nd these with the high prices h seem likely to prevail 11 tor several season to come foretell a per lod of t for the South such lIuch IU as the bt yields lelda ot of wheat heat an and corn have brought to 10 the West During the entire period J ot of depres dp II lion n In th the cotton cotlon growing roMI pm ha 1195 b beets n adjusted to a low level ot of rust cot which will make the Ule In profitable even lit al a lower price than that which now prevails prevail Jt It took the South a lOad good many years to learn that the method ot of raising cotton which prevailed before the war a ot suit suited ed to iO the changed conditions which tol fol lowed that conflict Great plantations plantation by elve Iv not likely agaIn to become profitable In the South Cotton Colton I no now grown Irown almost exclusively b by tare mere men who own or rent tarns taI or who work on shares the pieces ler or of land belonging to 10 tilt the proprietors ot of large arlle plantations These The men put their own labor Into the Boll and by careful ardul cute cui make th the most or of each acre bout About the only al they need to employ Is II In the picking The pick Ing season which h is II now on menus a as muck much to the labor ot of the southern StAt States IU as harvesting dues 1001 to tho hoe ot of the wheat belt helt Cotton is II by no I means II a milt mat ter ler unattended by work and worry From the time when the Nd geed II is put In to 10 the the South Atlantic Stat States about the toI Sidle or of the picking Is II over In October tober or garty In November the plan planter r It Is compelled to be constantly on the alert against I the many ot of his hll crop and nd never knows lenon until the ht down la III safely housed whether hi his crop Is to be a ce eels or not Rust an l blight mil may descend upon It when Mn I the he prospect I Is ot of the fairest It there is III a drought the i avea and Jolla bola at the plant fall Call ort oft It Ir there I Is tow much raIn after atler the boll Op opens the l cotton rots rot The rut cut worm rat rate the tender sprouts the boll worm the heart or of the plant while hill other crawling and flying leta are IUt likely to tall upon It and turn en an en tire seasons work Into waste within a week It tons bp be truly said that pt eter eternal r nal vigilance Is III the Ibe price ot of success In raising cotton Cotton otton seed Is sown lown In bY br a ma machine chine called the the Plante are above ground they are alf thinned out b by rutting a pert part or of the sprouts and the Between the I mss Is h with Ith n oral ral times until th the t bolls Rr are on the plant Then the to rows Ar are up 4 after atter which the future ot of th the crop must be left to the weather and a 11 benign Ii until the season for tor arrives Itus J I Is the gala fla time ot of the tIn ern Young and old or of huth hoth IUt pour Into the And lIh bags over orr shoulders houlden move mo up UI and down tilt the long IonIC row rows 1 aeling tb the cotton from tile the bolls boll with deft dett hands hand a as they walk along The amount df cotton that one can pick In a d day depends largely upon the experience of the picker but partial also upon the of the tbt crop A light crop rop snakes picking and abundant crop rol mak maks tits tilt task ot of gathering un an alY as un one A lve Iy worker will gather about two bun lIun tired M pounds of oC cotton cotlon In 1 n day although there frequently are cases where a u much as al three or four hundred pounds haw have been nicked by a IlnI eingle worker Th The cotton pickers up are sharing In no DO null the prosperity rOll which ten rent nt cotton has haa brought to the South Fur several years peat the average wages aal paid ald to the pickers have bf bees en from tort forty to 11 fifty cents per hundred l At present It however prices in III many parts pArt ot of the South hue hate risen t to and cents A As may lit he Image fined this means a great reat to people who see tittle ot of real money from one year end to another except for forthe th the WIIt wages which they earn In ClItton fields l From rom the baskets end and the storehouse the cotton rolon I is hauled ll on nn big 1111 wagons to the gin Most ot of t the he glue flu t In n arec In the South ar are lit of the old tale Ilal tern Im by I LII II Whitney with one on onely I ly R a ft few modern improvement This separates the fibre by tearing It from the net seed by br means ot of a series of circular as law v e with one teeth leeth It is II then paned In a condenser from which It emerges Ili III thin raul sheets ready for tor hAling baling It hAs been en asserted by Edward AtkIn Atkinson Ion and other that troD from 2 to 3 per bale bal would bf be added to the value ur of cotton otton Ir if It was ginned according to 10 more methods and baled with greater care There Is no doubt that growing pros pro will mean the adoption ot a better machinery and more lip up to date meth Ineth methods ode In handling cotton lOlon Five hundred pounds ot of cotton Is sup supposed posed to go 10 Into a bale bait It le Is packed together b by a press and then encircled b by six hoops hoopa or of Iron In this form torm It Itle le II carried aWI away to market turned over or orto overto to the factor or commission merchant and nd b by him shipped to It Its I going chiefly to the Ule looms or of old and New ew England Th The cotton raising industry I has hll ben been lar largely ely by these commission merchants merchant It has haa been their custom to o advance mon money to th the planters tak taking ing nl as their security th the prospective crop rI In this way II Ion have he n kept largely h depends d nt upon them and antl tile they have ben been able to make a good profit on mOlt moat ot of the cotton 0 II or whIch Passed through their hands At the he hue however ver the are re corning more mor to rely upon their own efforts and when the they hY have realised their Independence ot of the general lore and th the commission merchant th they will be able to hotter Leur return upon ulon their Two other factors promise to 10 add to the prosperity which I le likely to come cometo to the South from It Its most mOlt Important crop One ot of these till le II the growing rowin de demand demand mand whIch exists for tor what were for Cur mer merb WI the waste products or of the crop At the present tune the value or of cotton IHeI II fa little I less than that or of the Ihl cote cot cotton ton Itself Within A tow rew years lan the export expert ot of cote cot ton seed ell has grows rown from nothing to upward of the total production ot of the States ShUll now exceeds exceed gallons adding addingto to 10 the resources of oC the country more thelt per This is II en Urel ull from time the uses Ulle which leave I e been found for cottonseed d products 81 food tood for tor cattle and all as uses In themselves represent n IL value alta of at several everal million dollars The other development la I ad addinK dung dinK to the prosperity ot of the South Is II the growth or of the Iho cotton spin 1111 industry instead ot of shipping its 1111 to Liverpool or New ew England I as formerly the South uth now works work up I its 0 uw n raw material Nearly early five hun died cotton otton mill art are now In operation within 1 the limits limit lit of the cotton olton belt running five million represent representIng Ing an investment of DC and antl consuming annually bales ot of f 11 I r about one seventh ot of the en entire entire tire cotton crop This growth or of the In Industry side b by hide the fields of oC production is II one o of lb mast encouraging aging for time the Industrial outlook ref It th the South It millions or of dollars In prom kept Itt at home and In wages paid alil oUt to operators an and It means diversity or of Into inh rests which Is the bell beet assurance of oC continued un pros w PI k n Stilt fee t tt the ma roi I to Pekin and the relief of oC the beleaguered time the soldiers of Japan bore a conspicuously heroic t part their valor alor and for tor the rime tray being note nota notable bile ble features or of the campaign inel dentally these Jane little are the finest neat soldiers In the world They are In stature but mighty might In deeds They fhe seem tt to b be absolutely without tOOl tear or of death They are Intensely pa Ila And timers Is no army In the world which has ha a mOre modern or a amore amore more complete equipment To fo illus illustrate I 1 was talking to an officer the theother theother other evening evelln amid I asked after what country countr the Japan Japanese tactics were cop Cal Called led H pre responded liter many At first WI we tried Ih the O German then the French then the but now flOW we have the Thus Thul their count coun country try tr has hal tried every ery system has haa evolved or oa hag bOI gleaned Cleaned I should hoUld say MY the Wilt best points front eAch and no now they have ban a 11 system rn beet suited lulled to their needs The system of Ir choosing their Is unique but Lut at the same lIam time lime of oC the best results Once I a year ear w w w www ww WWW wwW U W competitive examinations are 11 held lit literary and antl mathematical In character throughout the empire All 1 young able or J men be they sons Ion of oC tile the emper emperor or or or of a may compete th A certain number are chosen chONn and serve for a ot of one year II in the ranks three months h as A a class private two a as a corporal the balo or of orthe the year I as ft a sergeant At t Ih the cud ot of this tint time another examination Is II held beld And It if the candidate P passes It success successfully Ue e fUll fully hI he I is admit admitted led to Ui military a academy cadt lilY where he is II Instructed In the profession of arms arid and the tot lea ot of an for tor a further or of H 15 A the en end of oC this time exam J a held and In the a ent lIt of II Us being passed the candidate Is placed In the he regular army nn for tor a period of III six x Ih that n according to merit At the storming of oC Tien Tan the Jap 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I the most cur ern t J 1 t dently hid had a tile the sort In th the quantity II of II lit tl Ii the finest silt Rill l 1 ticks ot of silver r j I for tor the troop t 1 number r ot Ault Au I 1 ftc which hl he I Chinese up II I b by them P Non cilin awn u II r rand our orders I stalest lit get myself hi h t tor collecting r rover over Or to the m loose diver 10 t 10 bottle of br h Strict orders u II t tIre i Ire to lO he Ink n mInt WIl warp bur m 1 about Vl I oJ and tamed oU 1 I government nr loo be no more tl th t have teen seen I am I could mind SI 11 and shovel rII |